Immigration

James Clappison: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many people have migrated to the UK who were not UK citizens or citizens of another EU member state in  (a) each year since 1997 and  (b) each of the last eight quarters for which figures are available.

Nick Hurd: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
	 Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated July 2010:
	As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning the number of immigrants who were non-UK or non-EU citizens (a) each year since 1997 and (b) each of the last eight quarters for which figures are available. (10583)
	The annual data that have been provided to answer part (a) are from Long-Term International Migration (LTIM) estimates which are derived from several data sources. The International Passenger Survey (IPS) migrant data provides the foundation of the LTIM estimates with adjustments for asylum seekers, people whose intentions change with regard to their length of stay, and for international migration to and from Northern Ireland.
	ONS publish rolling annual estimates each quarter based solely on the IPS. These estimates have been used to answer part (b).
	These migration estimates cover those entering with the intention of living in the destination country for periods of twelve months or more. They will therefore exclude those entering the UK for less than twelve months.
	These estimates are of numbers of moves each period rather than numbers of people. For instance, an individual could enter in one year, leave just over a year later and then enter again a year after that. They would appear twice in the table for (a).
	
		
			  Long-term international migration, time series, 1997 to 2008, United Kingdom, citizenship 
			  Thousand 
			   Non-European Union 
			  Inflow  
			 1997(1) 166 
			 1998(1) 206 
			 1999(1) 272 
			 2000(1) 316 
			 2001(1) 313 
			 2002(1) 357 
			 2003(1) 344 
			 2004(2) 370 
			 2005(2) 317 
			 2006(2) 343 
			 2007(3) 305 
			 2008(3) 307 
			 (1 )For 1997 to 2003, non-European Union estimates exclude EU15 (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom) (2 )For 2004 to 2006, non-European Union estimates exclude EU25 (EU15 and A8 groupings-the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia-plus Malta and Cyprus). (3) From 2007, non-European Union estimates exclude EU27 (EU25 plus Bulgaria and Romania). 
		
	
	
		
			  International Passenger Survey (IPS) estimates of long-term international migration, rolling annual data to Q3 2009, United Kingdom, citizenship 
			  Thousand 
			   Non-European Union( 2) 
			  Year ending  Estimate  Relative standard  error (% ) 
			  Inflow   
			 December 2007 275 4 
			 March 2008 269 4 
			 June 2008 276 4 
			 September 2008 282 4 
			 December 2008 279 4 
			 March 2009(1) 275 4 
			 June 2009(1) 265 4 
			 September 2009(1) 270 3 
			 (1)( )Provisional estimates for 2009. (2)( )Non-European Union estimates exclude Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Malta, Cyprus, Bulgaria and Romania. ()Standard error Relative standard error (%) = -------------------- x 100 Estimate  Note: Estimates are uncalibrated.